Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection
No longer in production on WRTI 90.1. Continuing as podcast at FreeLibrary.org
In Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, we uncover the unknown, rediscover the little-known, and take a fresh look at some of the remarkable treasures housed in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Fleisher Collection is the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. Listen to the new podcast on Soundcloud!
Latest Episodes
-
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, March 9th at 5 pm...The young Englishman watched the cigar smoke dance slowly as it dissipated into the hot,… -
If you know Percy Grainger at all, you know Country Gardens, that simple frolic every beginning pianist, every wind band, every school orchestra has…
-
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Jan. 12th at 5 pm... Impressionism is an imprecise, even controversial term, the first “impressionist”…
-
Who does this sound like?That’s the first question we ask when we hear music new to us. It’s as true with Havergal Brian’s as with anyone else’s—probably…
-
We call William Grant Still “The Dean of African-American Composers,” and the description strikes us as quaint. Not wrong, since it’s undeniable that…
-
Squeezed between a Russian revolution that destroyed his home, and a world war that destroyed the rest, Karol Szymanowski finally found escape in the art…
-
Music will always challenge our assumptions...if we let it. For a couple of generations now, those who unearthed music from earlier times have wanted to…
-
This time, he’d show them. The Paris Conservatoire accepted Ravel as a piano student at age 16, and even though he won a piano competition, more than…
-
The circus came to town, and the music director, walking through the streets, heard a violin beautifully played from a house he was passing by. He knocked…
-
Join us on Saturday, June 2nd from 5 to 6 pm for a look into the life of composer and conductor Ralph Vaughan Williams.Even though descended from the…
